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Muswellbrook Shire Council
An approval is not a home. Lodgd follows every application in Muswellbrook Shire Council through to what gets built.
Muswellbrook Shire Council determines a development application in a median of 46 days — 10 days faster than the NSW median of 56.
Measured across 142 determined development applications, last 12 months · 1,468 applications on record · 23 planning proposals · 16,859 people (2025 ABS estimate) · 6,001 occupied dwellings (2021 Census)
Housing determined since 1 July 2024
316 homes have been determined here
Counted from the applications that state a number of new homes. Where an application does not state one, it is not read as a zero. A home decided twice at the same address is counted once.
NSW’s housing target
Muswellbrook Shire Council has no council-level target.
Outside the four target areas. Covered by the single 55,000-home regional NSW allocation, which NSW does not break down by council.
Approved is not built
Across NSW, only 57% of homes determined reach construction within two years.
Lodgd matches every application to the construction certificates that follow it, site by site, across all 128 councils — so the pipeline can be read as what is likely to exist rather than what was lodged.
Try the free demo →Measured over 193,554 homes determined between July 2021 and November 2024 — every decision old enough to have had two full years to start.
Of every hundred homes NSW determines, this many have a construction certificate — building work can legally begin — within two full years.
Latest activity
Straight from the NSW Planning Portal
- DA4 SUNLINE STREET MUSWELLBROOK 2333Lodged27 Oct 2026
- DA16 STOCKYARD PARADE MUSWELLBROOK 2333Lodged27 Oct 2026
- CDC45 KING STREET MUSWELLBROOK 2333Lodged27 Oct 2026
- CDC25 NORTHERLY CLOSE MUSWELLBROOK 2333Lodged26 Oct 2026
- DA18 HUNTER STREET DENMAN 2328Lodged26 Oct 2026
- Planning proposalBoundary adjustments and historical dwelling entitlementsMade24 July 2026
- Planning proposalAddition permitted use - camping ground at Lot 400 DP 57684, Lot 22 DP 616590 & Lot 10 DP 843828Made25 Nov 2024
Elsewhere in NSW
Every council, the same way
How the system works. What happens to a DA · How long they take · Complying development vs a DA · All guides →
How we count. These figures count the homes stated on development applications and complying development certificates lodged with Muswellbrook Shire Council, checked against the NSW Planning Portal. Where another source counts differently, Lodgd publishes what is in the applications rather than adjusting to match.